The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 59
Vishaya vinivartante niraharasya dehinah I
Rasavarjam rasopyasya param drishta nivartate II sloka 59
विषयाः विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः ।
रसवर्जं रसोप्यस्य परम् दृष्टा निवर्तते ।। श्लोक ५९
Sense objects drop out of the abstinent man, though not the longing for them. His longing also ceases when he intuits the Supreme
The series of those fallen sick become unfit for indulgence; but the craving in them for sense enjoyment persists. They harbour the hope of being able to to enjoy after recovery. A convict in prison is forced to abstain from sense enjoyments; but the hankering for them dwells in his heart. While the body and the senses are under restraint, the mind wanders.The mental makeup of the beginner in austerity is not far removed from that of the patient or the prisoner. Subtle tendencies hover about in him.
Seeds that are burnt do not sprout any further. SImilarly the vagrant mind gets vanquished once for all with the dawn of the Knowledge Supreme. A jnani is he in whom mentation has lost its vehemence. An aspirant is he who tries to sublimate the senses by associating them always with the sublime.
A brother and sister were playing in a dense and bushy garden. All on a sudden the brother was missing. While the other was anxiously searching for him, a bear came out of a bush. The girl became stunned with fear. Finding teh joke too severe for her, the brother threw off the mask of the bear and presented himself in his true form. The terrified girl came then to her senses and wondered that it was all the play of her own brother. In this manner Brahman puts on the mask of the phenomenon and allures and frightens the ignorant. But the Enlightened One is no more frightened or enticed. He transcends the senses.
Sri Ramakrishna Pramahamsa
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